Kamala Harris campaign raises $200m in one week

Kamala Harris’ campaign team have said that in just one week they have received $200 million in donations for her presidential campaign.  

The campaign, which announced the total on Sunday, said 66 per cent of the funds came from first-time donors, grassroots support for Harris’ bid. And the campaign said the support has extended to its volunteer effort, with over 170,000 new volunteers coming on board since last week’s announcement. 

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“In the week since we got started, @KamalaHarris has raised $200 million dollars. 66 percent of that is from new donors. We’ve signed up 170,000 new volunteers,” Harris’ deputy campaign manager, Rob Flaherty, posted on X.

Polls over the past week, including one by Reuters/Ipsos, show Harris and Trump essentially tied, setting the stage for a close-fought campaign over the 100 days left until the election.

Trump’s campaign said in early July they had raised $331 million in the second quarter, topping the $264 million that Biden’s campaign and its Democratic allies raised in the same period. Trump’s campaign had $284.9 million in cash on hand at the end of June while the Democratic campaign had $240 million in cash on hand at the time.

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So far Harris has gotten support from a majority of delegates in the Democratic party including that of former president Barack Obama to the Democratic National Convention, likely ensuring she will become the party’s nominee for president next month.

“So our vice president is the presumptive nominee. We will have the official vote on August 1,” Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison told MSNBC on Sunday.

A New York Times/Siena College national poll published Thursday found Harris had narrowed what had been a sizable Trump lead while Trump had a two percentage point lead over her in a Wall Street Journal poll published on Friday. 

Harris’s presidential race bid comes after her endorsement by President Joe Biden for her to contest in his stead as Democratic party candidate after raising concerns about his health and his faltering debate performance against Trump.